CALM approach

Adaptavist CALM – the business of software and applications

Complete Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) is how we help organisations
take a holistic view of the process of creating, delivering and managing their
software and applications. Many organisations fail to compete because they find
that their information technology and their business requirements aren’t working
as part of the same process.

Make the process work as a whole

Our experience tells us that it’s essential to look at the lifecycle as a whole
and understand all the processes that contribute to the design, delivery and
support of software and applications. Merely fixing individual parts in
isolation often leads to problems in other parts of the process and no overall
improvement as increased throughput in one part of the process simply increases
the pressure on a bottleneck, leading to no overall improvement or even a
reduction in performance.

Taking a holistic view means that a roadmap can be created, showing of what
needs to be fixed, how and when. More importantly, the inter-dependencies
between fixing, removing and adding elements of the process can be understood
and put into action. It would be unrealistic not to recognise the importance of
the interaction between teams, tools and platforms as well as the tools and
platforms themselves.

Measure the real cost and value of the application portfolio

Adaptavist CALM provides the best and most cost-effective way of delivering and
supporting applications. It’s a methodology and framework for managing your
application portfolio, viewing the total cost of ownership – including the
long-term cost of deployment and ongoing support – and measuring this against
the value they are forecast to deliver.